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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contact with him, Dr. Sargent is as real and genial a friend as he is a helpful physical advisor. Outside the limits of Cambridge Dr. Sargent is almost as well known and certainly as highly regarded as he is here. His efforts in behalf of national hygiene have done much to further the cause of compulsory physical training in schools, and through his writings on the subject he has come to be regarded as an authority...
...first glance the foundation of a fellowship whereby a single English student may study at the University may not seem to be of much importance. Yet, if the educated classes of England and the United States hold aloof from one another, the chance for the real international friendship which comes of long acquaintance will be small indeed. It took the actual comradeship of the front line trenches, stripping away social mannerisms and prejudices, to teach the American soldier in France to like and respect the Briton. Unfortunately, it is impossible to stage a war very frequently to promote international good...
...Chapel would be increased. Although opposed to compulsory attendance, Dr. Forthingham expressed the desire that arrangements similar to those at the University of Chicago be made here. At Chicago, each class goes to chapel en masse one day each week, and, although the attendance remain voluntary, it brings much better result than the system at the University...
...University debating authorities from both the other universities, especially in the Princeton contest, in which the University is represented by only one man who has spoken before in an intercollegiate debate, while all three of the opposing debaters have been in at least two other such contests. Not much is known of the Yale team which meets the University at Cambridge except that the third speaker, L. S. Hitchcock, was a member last year's championship team. Up to date, the University has a score of 33 debating victories to 23 for Princeton, and 20 for Yale...
...great problem in University life for some time past has been the lack of common interests between the foreign student and the majority of the undergraduates. In the Student Council's decision to admit one or more representatives of the Cosmopolitan Club to its membership, much progress has been made in the solution of this difficulty...